Shylah
#5,410 for girls in 2025, 23 births
- Peak · girls
- 2007 · 114 births
- Debut · girls
- 14 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,779since 1976
Shylah over time
Rank among girls' names. Shylah has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #5,410 | 23 |
| 2024 | #5,148 | 25 |
| 2023 | #4,565 | 30 |
| 2022 | #4,202 | 34 |
| 2021 | #4,326 | 32 |
| 2020 | #3,778 | 38 |
| 2019 | #3,851 | 38 |
| 2018 | #3,677 | 41 |
| 2017 | #3,848 | 39 |
| 2016 | #3,010 | 55 |
| 2015 | #3,346 | 48 |
| 2014 | #2,535 | 70 |
| 2013 | #2,769 | 62 |
| 2012 | #2,286 | 82 |
| 2011 | #1,886 | 106 |
| 2010 | #2,405 | 78 |
| 2009 | #2,139 | 94 |
| 2008 | #2,020 | 103 |
| 2007 | #1,848 | 114 |
| 2006 | #2,396 | 78 |
| 2005 | #2,524 | 68 |
| 2004 | #3,333 | 45 |
| 2003 | #3,805 | 36 |
| 2002 | #4,621 | 26 |
| 2001 | #3,785 | 34 |
| 2000 | #4,981 | 23 |
| 1999 | #4,718 | 23 |
| 1998 | #4,492 | 24 |
| 1997 | #3,547 | 32 |
| 1996 | #6,392 | 14 |
| 1995 | #6,641 | 13 |
| 1994 | #7,097 | 12 |
| 1993 | #5,955 | 15 |
| 1992 | #7,067 | 12 |
| 1991 | #7,987 | 10 |
| 1990 | #11,409 | 6 |
| 1989 | #6,160 | 13 |
| 1988 | #6,666 | 11 |
| 1987 | #7,353 | 9 |
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| 1985 | #8,318 | 7 |
| 1984 | #4,737 | 15 |
| 1983 | #4,686 | 15 |
| 1982 | #4,527 | 16 |
| 1981 | #4,532 | 16 |
| 1980 | #4,517 | 16 |
| 1979 | #3,777 | 20 |
| 1978 | #3,512 | 21 |
| 1977 | #3,267 | 23 |
| 1976 | #4,363 | 14 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Shylah! It came in at #4,363, and was given to 14 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1986, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Shylah is popular in 2012
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Pennsylvania#1,391 · 1 in 10,551
- Georgia#1,465 · 1 in 9,463
- New York#1,756 · 1 in 13,182
- California#2,169 · 1 in 20,908
- Texas#3,183 · 1 in 31,663
Best ever in a state: #634 in South Carolina, 2011.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Pennsylvania | #1,391 | 5 | 1 in 10,551 |
| Georgia | #1,465 | 5 | 1 in 9,463 |
| New York | #1,756 | 7 | 1 in 13,182 |
| California | #2,169 | 10 | 1 in 20,908 |
| Texas | #3,183 | 5 | 1 in 31,663 |
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See more about Shylah
- 262 spots since 2024 (#5,148 → #5,410)
- 1,632 spots since 2020 (#3,778 → #5,410)
- 2,064 spots since 2015 (#3,346 → #5,410)
- Debuted 1976
- Peaked 2007 at #1,848 (114 births)
- Births halved by 2015, 8 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 16,595 girls born in 2011 were named Shylah (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 69,881 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,848 in 2007, was only 1 in 16,865 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 34.9% of all girls named Shylah (621) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 78 | #3,267 (1977) | #3,730 |
| 1980s | 118 | #4,517 (1980) | #5,722 |
| 1990s | 161 | #3,547 (1997) | #6,531 |
| 2000s | 621 | #1,848 (2007) | #3,145 |
| 2010s | 619 | #1,886 (2011) | #2,961 |
| 2020s | 182 | #3,778 (2020) | #4,572 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Shylah in 2012
Top girls' names in 2012
More about 2012
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1,761,053 girls got a published name in 2012; 1 in 21,476 of them was named Shylah, which outranked 88.3% of the 19,534 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,265Tristyn83
- #2,265Yatziri83
- #2,265Yessenia83
- #2,286Shylah82
- #2,286Adalina82
- #2,286Adara82
- #2,286Adrianne82
- #2,315Arie81
- #2,315Arissa81
- #2,315Cailin81
Tied with 28 names at #2,286; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.